Animation Workshop Viborg, Denmark

http://vimeo.com/viborganimation/videos

•http://vimeo.com/18664745

Megan Tupper made Keys in her final year at the University of Wales, Newport:

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dQQFcuEEMY&feature=player_embedded

Tous des Monstres (All of the Monsters) is a student film from Supinfocom directed by Nicolas Deprez, Laurent Jaffier, Pierre Lippens and Gabrielle Lissot.

•http://vimeo.com/18563134

I love films made with paper cut-outs. Here’s a really amazing one by students Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas, Train of Thought – their graduation film from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth.

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5mpg1XBago&feature=player_embedded

The Facts In The Case of Mr. Valdemar was made by Bahij Jaroudi for the MA program at Kingston University

•http://vimeo.com/17691374

Case in point: Paranoia is an animated short film made by 4 students (Sandeepan Chanda, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Amrita Mukhopadhyay, Nitesh Mishraas) as part of their final year degree project for Mumbai’s Thakur-Toonskool Advanced Animation Academy.

•http://vimeo.com/17358994

The film was made at the Angoulême, France-based animation school EMCA. There’s a smart write-up about the short at Kuriositas.com.

•http://vimeo.com/14762092

Among the gems discovered this year in Ottawa was Shin Hashimoto’s The Undertaker and the Dog, a student short made at Tokyo’s Tama Art University

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYtkWlPOAn4&feature=player_embedded

So what did you do on your summer vacation? Louis Thomas, a second year animation student from Gobelins, made Playing With Light with his friend Theo Guignard over the summer, during their two month work placement at Cube Creative in Paris.

•http://vimeo.com/15731659

Kahani is short film created by student Meg Park in her final year at Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. Park definitely shows talent in color design, effects and pacing

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFwGXH8ELU&feature=player_embedded

The first time we wrote about Kirsten Lepore, she was studying at Maryland Institute College of Art

•http://vimeo.com/kirstenlepore/bottle

•http://vimeo.com/kirstenlepore/bootyclap

We’re going to India for this weeks’ episode of the Cartoon Brew TV Student Animation Festival. Pdingpdoong is directed by Krishna Chandran A. Nair, Manasi Parikh, Nupur Mukherjee, and Chewang Lepcha.

•http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/pdingpdoong.html

Someone has issues with Nick Jr. – and that someone is Cal Arts student Tyler Chen. He works it all out here:

•http://vimeo.com/11573607

Student George Metaxas made this short stop-mo animated film using only card board materials. The results got him accepted this year into the experimental animation program at Cal Arts. He says “It’s an allegory about the sacrifices of the creative process”. Whatever it is, I like it.

•http://vimeo.com/9436559

Conor Finnegan’s cute l’il graduate film from the IADT National Film School in Ireland, is a mix of stop-motion, live action and hand drawn animation

•http://vimeo.com/12699638

The Art of Drowning, Diego Maclean’s 2009 graduation film from Emily Carr University, is finally on-line.

•http://vimeo.com/13110245

Oscars

•http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgtlpk_the-lost-thing-de-shaun-tan-et-andrew-ruhemann_shortfilms

•http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgu60j_madagascar-a-journey-diary_shortfilms

•http://vimeo.com/19410517